Julie Dorf

Horizon Foundation

On the first anniversary of Gwen Araujo’s brutal murder in Newark, California, Horizons Foundation is creating a fund named in her honor to reduce the ignorance and hatred that caused this terrible hate-crime in the Bay Area. Establishment of the Fund was publicly announced at Horizons' annual “Celebrating Our Communities” event, at which a Cornerstone Award was presented to Gwen Araujo, and accepted on her behalf by her mother, Sylvia Guerrero, and family.

The Gwen Araujo Memorial Transgender Education Fund will provide annual grants to support school-based programs in the nine-county Bay Area that promote understanding of transgender people and issues. The fund will be created as a “field of interest” fund, administered by Horizons staff, and provide a variety of ways for donors to participate. An advisory committee comprised of members of the community with expertise in transgender issues and school-based advocacy is being created to advise the fund.